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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	29.02 %		[10th of 38]
Assaults	548,847		[2nd of 49]
Assaults (per capita)	12.0752 per 1,000 people		[1st of 57]
Burglaries	393,959		[4th of 38]
Burglaries (per capita)	8.89764 per 1,000 people		[10th of 54]
Car thefts	93,133		[6th of 46]
Car thefts (per capita)	2.25426 per 1,000 people		[18th of 55]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	16.09 %		[16th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	20.83 %		[14th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	8.79 %		[15th of 39]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,997		[15th of 64]
Death penalty > Abolition for ordinary crimes	1,995		[1st of 20]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,991		[5th of 55]
Drug offences	53,810 per 100,000 people		[4th of 46]
Frauds	56,232		[6th of 48]
Frauds (per capita)	1.51263 per 1,000 people		[14th of 61]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms	59.2028		[2nd of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	74.5748		[1st of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Non-firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	51.3901		[2nd of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	125.965		[1st of 32]
Illicit drugs transshipment center for heroin, hashish, and cocaine, as well as a major cultivator of marijuana in its own right; cocaine and heroin consumption on the rise; world's largest market for illicit methaqualone, usually imported illegally from India through various east African countries, but increasingly producing its own synthetic drugs for domestic consumption; attractive venue for money launderers given the increasing level of organized criminal and narcotics activity in the region and the size of the South African economy
Jails	228		[6th of 80]
Jails (per capita)	0.00496121 per 1,000 people		[25th of 62]
Judges and Magistrates	1,982		[10th of 35]
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber	Appeal
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected	2003
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name	Navanethem Pillay
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End	2009
Kidnappings	3,071 kidnappings		[2nd of 39]
Manslaughters	11,202		[2nd of 42]
Manslaughters (per capita)	0.247181 per 1,000 people		[1st of 43]
Murders	21,553		[1st of 49]
Murders (per capita)	0.496008 per 1,000 people		[2nd of 62]
Murders with firearms	31,918		[1st of 36]
Murders with firearms (per capita)	0.719782 per 1,000 people		[1st of 32]
Police	101,582		[8th of 47]
Police (per capita)	2.7668 per 1,000 people		[22nd of 48]
Prisoners	181,944 prisoners		[2nd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	2.2%		[107th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	2.1%		[55th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	402 per 100,000 people		[10th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	28.3%		[80th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	159.4%		[26th of 128]
Rapes	52,425		[2nd of 50]
Rapes (per capita)	1.19538 per 1,000 people		[1st of 65]
Robberies	228,442		[3rd of 47]
Robberies (per capita)	4.4434 per 1,000 people		[4th of 64]
Sentence Length	48.08		[13th of 21]
Software piracy rate	34%		[89th of 107]
Total crimes	2,683,849		[5th of 50]
Total crimes (per capita)	77.1862 per 1,000 people		[10th of 60]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked to South Africa and, less frequently, onward to Europe for sexual exploitation; men and boys are trafficked from neighboring countries for forced agricultural labor; Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking; the government provided inadequate data in 2007 on trafficking crimes investigated or prosecuted, or on resulting convictions or sentences; it also did not provide information on its efforts to protect victims of trafficking; the country continues to deport and/or prosecute suspected foreign victims without providing appropriate protective services
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	September 16, 1999
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	June 25, 2001
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	34		[26th of 143]

Interesting facts on South African Crime

• Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.

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